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Big Spender is a song from the musical Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Leigh. Both Peggy Lee and Shirley Bassey have had big success with this song.

Sentimental Journey is one of the biggest hits of the great big-band era. As Sentimental Journey was published in 1944 and coincided with the end of World War II in Europe, Doris Day's recording becam...

Un morceau parfait pour un ensemble à vent ! Un rythme entraînant mène la mélodie swinguante inoubliable, et chaque partie instrumentale a des tâches mélodiques et rythmiques en cours de route. Il s'...

A smash hit performed by artists like Peggy Lee, Elvis Preslay and Madonna covering the 50's, 60's and 90's. A true 'classic' now avaiable for flexible instrumentation. Even small ensembles can excite...

This beautiful song was already a great hit in Japan before its American debut in 1963, under the alternative title Sukiyaki. The most famous English-language cover version is by the pop group A Taste...

This very old pop tune comes here in an easy arrangement, but though with extensive content, written for flexible instrumentation. 'The Glory of Love', composed by Billy Hill (1899 - 1940), was first...

Many of the timeless pop songs from the 1960s are very playable for instrumental groups, and here comes another arrangement from this great music period, arranged for flexible instrumentation in the p...

Here is a light, medium easy (Grade 2) swinging arrangement of this well-known jazz standard. Bye Bye Blackbird was published in 1926 by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon. It was both their earliest song a...

Java was a big hit performed by the legendary New Orleans trumpeter Al Hirt. The song was written in 1963 by Allen Toussaint, one of the most influential composers in the New Orleans era.The titles of...

A great swing number for the upcoming concert, and it will surely be fun for both musicians and audience. 'Honeysuckle Rose' is one of the most common jazz standards. The charismatic Thomas 'Fats' Wal...

'Night Train' is a twelve-bar blues standard recorded for the first time by Jimmy Forrest in 1951. The history of this instrumental track is long and complicated. The opening riff was played by the ba...

Nat King Cole was an American singer and jazz pianist. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits, and this is one of his latest, recorded in 1963 and still a summer hit on the radio. This is a 'Flex...

Don't Fence Me In was originally written for the movie Adios, Argentina from 1934, to which Cole Porter was asked to write a catchy Cowboy song. 10 years after, the singer Roy Rogers performed it in t...

No Milk Today, originally recorded by British pop band Herman's Hermits, was a mayor hit in many European countries in 1966. In the '90s the song was used for a commercial of the Duch milk company Cob...

Mamy Blue was originally written with French lyrics in 1970 by songwriter Hubert Giraud. In 1971, the song became an international hit for the Spanish group Pop-Tops. The English version of Mamy Blue...

You can tell a song has done well when you see the list of artists who have recorded a cover version. Here are some of these artists, after the original version by The New Vaudeville Band, released in...

Du käre lille snickerbo ('My dearest little joinery') is a children's song from 1972. The song was written for one of the hugely popular Swedish films about Emil I Lonneberget, a little rascal from a...

Music to watch girls by is here presented in a bossa nova groove. A winner on any concert whether it's for an ensemble or a full band.Sid Ramins biggest commercial hit 'Music to watch girls by' began...

I'll Never Fall in Love Again was originally written for the 1968 musical 'Promises, Promises' by the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach/Hal David. There have been several recordings of this beautiful...

Everything's Coming Up Roses was composed by Stephen Sondheim (Lyrics) and Jule Styne (Music) in 1959 for the Broadway Musical 'Gypsy: A Musical Fable'. In the original cast, the song was performed by...

From The Musical The Pajama Game